Let’s Do the Time Loop Again: 5 Books to Read This Groundhog Day

With her signature wit and deliciously wicked imagination, V. E. Schwab is one author we just can’t get enough of. In The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, prepare to be mesmerized by Addie — our unflappable heroine, cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets after agreeing to a Faustian bargain and left to answer the question: “What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind?” What follows is a story as creative and unforgettable as Addie herself. 

A murder mystery novel inspired by Agatha Christie with a dash of Groundhog Day and a hint of Quantum Leap and Downton Abbey. If that doesn’t make you want to read The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton, then maybe this will. Aiden Bishop knows the rules. Evelyn Hardcastle will die every day until he can identify her killer and break the cycle. But every time the day begins again, Aiden wakes up in the body of a different guest at Blackheath Manor. And some of his hosts are more helpful than others. 

Samantha Kingston is going to die, and then die again … and, you guessed it, again. In fact, she’ll die seven times until she realizes that she holds way more power than she ever imagined. Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver gives reader a redemption story that shows that sometimes, you need to die to figure it all out.

What if you meet your love before they’re ready? You cross through time and keep going back to them. In The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, Henry DeTamble and Clare Abshire have a passionate affair that captures them in an impossibly romantic trap that tests the strength of fate and basks in the bonds of love.

On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson is a  darkly comic, startlingly poignant, and utterly original book.